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E. J. FUCHS; SAFETY RAZOR. v

Patented June 9, 1896.

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES i PA-TENT FFlCE.

EUGENE J. FUCHS, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO KAHPFE BROTHERS, OFNEXV YORK, N. Y.

RAZOR.

SPEGIFIG'ATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 561,707, dated June 9,1896.

Application filed March 11, 1896.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EUGENE J. FUCHS, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety-Razors, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in safety-razors and the objectof my invention is to provide a new and improved safetyrazor which issimple in construction and which can easily be cleaned.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification andin which like letters of reference indicate like parts in all the views,Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved safety-razor, parts beingbroken away. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same, the hinged top beingswung back. Fig. 3 is an end view of the same, the hinged top being inthe same position. Fig. at is a plan view of a modified construction.Fig. 5 is a vertical transverse sectional view of the same on the line 55 of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is avertical longitudinal sectional view of the sameon the line 6 6 of Fig. at. v

The safety-razor is constructedwith a casing A for receiving the bladeB, which casing has guard-teeth G formed on the upper edge of its rigidfront, said guard-teeth being curved on circular lines.

lhe blade B rests upon a blade-support D, which is pivoted at its frontcorners to the inner surfaces of the end walls of the casing A in such amanner that the hinge-pivots D of said support are concentric with thecircle on which the guard-teeth are shaped.

On the upper edge of each end wall of the casing A a lug E is formedwhich lugs are bent toward each other and against the blade is pressedthe collar F of a screw F, screwed through a downwardly-extending lug Gon the rear swinging edge of the support I), which lug G has a wing H,extending to the front. Said win g rests upon a screw J ,screwed throughthe bottom of the casing, so as to perinit of swinging up theblade-support I), the same being provided at each end with a notch K, ofsufficient size to permit the lugs E to Serial No. 582,751. (No model-lpass through them when the support is swung up. In the constructionshown in Figs. 4, 5, and 6 the lugs E on the upperedge of the end wallsof the casing A are omitted, and the pivoted blade-support D is providedat its ends and upper surface with angle-lugs L, against which the uppersurface of the blade B is pressed by the screw F. This support can alsobe swung up freely, so as to open the top of the casing A.

For the purpose of holding the blade-support in normal position forshaving, two flat friction-springs M are attached to the inner faces ofthe end walls of the casing and bear against the ends of the support andprevent the same from swinging up too freely or wobblin g. The ends ofthe support D are pressed against said springs M by the upward pressureof the screw J. When the support is to be raised for opening the top ofthe casing, the tension and friction of said springs M is overcome. Theupper ends M of said springs are beveled, so that when the support isswung down to close the casing and for receiving the blade said supportpresses the springs outward.

On my improved razor the guard is rigid and always retains its positionin relation to the casing.

As the blade-support can easily be raised the inner surfaces of theguard-teeth and the interior of the casing can easily be cleaned andwiped thoroughly dry.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a safety-razor, the combination with a casing, having a guard atits front, of a blade-support, pivoted at its front edge to the frontpart of the casing to swing upward and outward, over the guard, so as toentirely open up the top of the casingand to give free access to theguard for cleaning the same, substantially as herein shown anddescribed.

2. In a safety-razor, the combination with a casing, having fixedguard-teeth on its front, and angle-lugs proj eetin g toward each otherfrom the upper edges of the end walls of the casin g, of a bladesupportpivoted at the front of the casing to swing up and toward the myinventionlhavesigned my name,in presfront over the guard and havingnotches in ence of two witnesses, this 10th day of March, its ends forthe passage of the end lugs, a 1896.

screw on which the support rests and a screw EUGENE J. FUCHS. forholding the blade on the support, sub- Vitnesses: stantially as hereinshown and described. H. ADOLPH W'INKOPP,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as GUST. HUGELMEYER.

